True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

Hinterkaifeck Murders mystery

Hinterkaifeck Murders

A small farm outside the Ingolstadt in Germany, was the place of mysterious murder. Six months earlier the maid left her position stating that the house was haunted, later the residents...


D.B. Cooper mystery

D.B. Cooper

On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...


Murder of Sir Jack Drummond mystery

Murder of Sir Jack Drummond

When distinguished British biochemist Sir Jack Drummond was found dead on the roadside in France, no one expected this case will gain international coverage and still, after 60 years...


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Great mysteries

Isdal Woman mystery

Isdal Woman

On 29 November 1970, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Bergen in south-west Norway. The area was known as Isdalen (Ice Valley) or sometimes as Death Valley, due to the history...


Mary Celeste mystery

Mary Celeste

In 1872, in the middle of the Atlantic, the ship Marie Celeste was found abandoned by the crew. The ship was undamaged, there were no signs of any kind of violence on board, and the...


Oak Island mystery mystery

Oak Island mystery

A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...


Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...





Controversial theories

Smolensk air crash mystery

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...


Korean Air Lines Flight 007 mystery

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...



Unexplained phenomena

Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...


Bermuda Triangle mystery

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...



Crime and mystery movies

Lucia de B. 2014 mystery movie

Lucia de B. 2014

Alienated nurse in one of the hospitals becomes a prime suspect in investigation for deaths of several infants that were under her care.


The Blair Witch Project 1999 mystery movie

The Blair Witch Project 1999

Three students get lost in the woods while strange phenomena begin to take place.


Day of Wrath 2005 mystery movie

Day of Wrath 2005

In 16th century Spain local sheriff takes up case of brutal murders of noblemen and soon realizes noone is interested in discovering the truth.


The Last Ride 1963 mystery movie

The Last Ride 1963

When his shift-driver turns up dead in the remote place, the taxi driver Henryk becomes a prime suspect.



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